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To: wooden ships who wrote (7154)	8/26/1998 5:11:00 PM
From: Mr. BSL	Respond to of 42834

Truman: Very nice post on the Gore possibilities. IMHO the office of the President is very weak now and will be for the forseeable future. Gore may have very little effect because his agenda will be not to screw up before the year 2000 elections and the Republicans in congress will easily be able to knock any of his hairbrain schemes off track. Gore has no mandate. Gore can not lie convincingly and Gore has not built up a reservoir of goodwill amongst the main stream media types. Our culture is such that we tend to swing to extremes. Perhaps a better way to put it would be that we tend to over compensate. Clintons words were rarely questioned. Gore will have to explain everything he says. He who governs least governs best. Through circumstances, Gore will govern little and I believe that investors will react favorably. Just my thoughts.

To: wooden ships who wrote (7154)	8/27/1998 9:59:00 AM
From: wooden ships	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42834

The author of "Time Bomb 2000," a Y2K best-seller recom- mended by Bob Brinker, was a featured guest on the Art Bell show last night. From what I could glean, author Ed Yourdon, while not predicting the end of Western civilization as envisaged by fellow Y2K writer Gary North, nonetheless foresees serious problems afflicting US society as a consequence of Y2K, especially in the major population centers. Yourdon, editor of the "American Programmer" magazine, predicted a rash of electric power outages and communication failures just after 31 December 1999, but not a wholesale collapse of the power grid and telephone system, as North foretells. Yourdon likened a post A.D. 2000 U.S. to the third world where the electricity and telephones are not reliable and are frequently out of service. Yourdon also suggested the possibility of a significant economic retrenchment in the U.S. and warned of worse effects overseas. As noted heretofore, Yourdon has given some weight to his forecasts by virtue of his own actions. Having moved to the hills outside Taos, New Mexico and laid up sufficient stores to weather any potential fall-out from Y2K, he has even ar- ranged that the lease on his Jeep shall expire on February 2000 in the event that on 1 January 2000, the computers in his vehicle are smitten by the millennial bug.

To: wooden ships who wrote (7154)	9/2/1998 6:16:00 PM
From: Alan Whirlwind	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42834

Just got back from my Greyhound trip to Mount St. Helens. I see I've missed a lot. As a teacher with double certification I can tell you Truman that there is nothing on the net so interesting as a an outside adult coming into the classroom to share work experiences and hobbies, and nothing so useful as some chalk and a slate. --Alan